Common Cause is asking a federal appeals court in Washington to take a second look at the organization’s challenge to the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule and its 60-vote requirement for action.

In a petition filed Tuesday, the non-partisan government reform group urged the full 11-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review a three-judge panel’s decision in April dismissing Cause commune contre Biden. The panel said the litigation was flawed because it named officers of the United States Senate rather than the Senate itself as defendants.

Lead attorney and Common Cause National Governing Board Member Emmet Bondurant argued that the panel’s ruling is inconsistent with a long line of Supreme Court cases. The high court has held for over a century that the rule-making power of Congress is not absolute and is subject to the limitations imposed by other provisions of the Constitution, Bondurant asserted.

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Common Cause est une organisation populaire non partisane qui se consacre à la restauration des valeurs fondamentales de la démocratie américaine, à la réinvention d'un gouvernement ouvert, honnête et responsable qui œuvre pour l'intérêt public et à la capacité des citoyens ordinaires à faire entendre leur voix.